Idea: Julia Merk
Analysis, Visualisation: Julia Merk
Writing: Julia Merk
Editing: Rayna Breuer, Gianna-Carina Gruen
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Data retrieved from the Official Academy Awards Database
Data available as Excel file here
Genre of winner movies (1954-2020) scraped from the IMDb Database, list available here ; Genre for winner movies before 1954 added manually
Directors information retrieved from Wikipedia list
Information on birth dates and debut movies of directors added manually
Analysis of genre, continents, age, gender, experience available here. Containing a tab with the most important results of the analysis.